Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !

Think I will go over to multiplayerchess.com.

And tune a few up. I want to be like johnny rotten

Gone but not forgotten..

I read somewhere that when w c fields started out he would not drink either booze or coffee in order to juggle better but he would always keep a bottle of booze on hand to encourage friends to drop by.my idea of a great host. Btw to the person who mentioned laurel n hardy I quite agree, they were great as well.

I saw a clip once with w c fields juggling with pool balls etc I really was amazing, btw did anyone see a clip where he is a clerk in a store and he waited on a blind customer. The customer used his cane to tell where he was going but meanwhile he smashed about

100 light bulbs.than wc cut out 1 stamp which the customer wanted from the middle of the page, so wc ruined about 10 other stamps. Very funny stuff.

I gave up being a chess club member 10 years ago when I lost a game after being 2 pieces up. I  enjoy playing here cos you have plenty of time to reconsider moves and there's no one to jeer if you play substandardly! I am 85 years old.

I quite like this quote from Vlade Divac:  " We all get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads ".

Time for another cute little saying and this time I have found one that covers life and Chess at the same time ( and is also a warning for those who feel that they are " big wheels " ). It is an Italian proverb that says: Once the game is over, the KING and the PAWN go back in the SAME box ! ( a proverb that truly gets down to it ).

Time for a short little item in relation to food and diet, etc. This one comes from one of our favourite characters, Mister WC Fields: " Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water ". Not much fun that  lol. 

Lovely!  I'd never heard that one!  And I can instantly hear it delivered in his distinctive, musical voice --- that perfectly off-hand, throw-away, "dry" (you should excuse the expression) style of his.

wat am i torkin bout ????

Thanks for the new post.

Just had the chance to again watch " My Little Chickadee " which has WC Fields in fine form for this film. Mae West is also involved in this project and together they do quite a sendup of the old western movies.

Earlier this year Reader's Digest magazine had a feature on " The Secret To Power Aging ". They mention a fellow by the name of Dr Ephriam Engleman who at age 104 is the head of a research center of UCSF ( yup I said 104 years young ). This guy makes me feel like a young pup  lol.

And the cry from the cheap seats is " More jokes please ! "

A quote from Gene Perret: " Retirement, it's nice to get out of the rat race but you have to get along with less cheese . " ( hey that is not funny at all ).

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• Lawyer: "What happened then?"
• Witness: "He told me, he says, 'I have to kill you because you can identify me.'"
• Lawyer: "Did he kill you?"
• Witness: "No.”

Lawyer: "Now, doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, in most cases he just passes quietly away and doesn't know anything about it until the next morning?"

Thanks for the posts and for the cute jokes.

Well done!